title: Pulmonary tumor embolism syndrome from occult colonic adenocarcinoma.
abstract: Pulmonary tumor embolism syndrome is a rare phenomenon that can occur in patients who have an occult neoplasm that metastasizes. We describe a case of an elderly woman with an undiagnosed colon cancer who suffered from respiratory distress and compromised pulmonary blood flow from micrometastasis in the pulmonary arteries.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Radiology (Heithaus) and Pathology (Hitchcock, Guileyardo), Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.
authors.forename: Robert Evans
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Heithaus
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hitchcock
authors.forename: Joseph M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Guileyardo